My Fantastic Ranch: Unicorns & Dragons Reviews

not fun

I do not recommend the game in its current state. Not for $30 dollars anyways. its a nice little iPad game really, just to mindlessly keep building until you cant anymore. if you're playing it on mouse and keyboard, i hope you have a scroll wheel. and if you do have a scroll wheel, i hope your carpel tunnel doesn't flare up. Most of the game is you connecting student to mythical creature for a "perfect Match" or something. It gets repetitive fast. But like i said its a nice little time waster. Even though when i try to put down pathing for my kingdom, the paths don't even show up. Get it on sale maybe. I'd .. id even wait for it to be $10 or under. I shouldn't have spent more, like i said not in its current state.

This is a management sim with cute unicorns and dragons. Basically, you run a riding school. The graphics are adorable, and the voice-overs are nice. It definitely has the feel of a kids game, and there's no way to really lose (so it's good for kids). That said, some reading skills are needed. On the downside, the game is pretty short (lv 10 is the highest) and feels incomplete (like an Early Access, tbh). It's also difficult to manage the unicorns and dragons and supposedly the staff care for them on their own, but it seems to be somewhat buggy. If there is a way to manage what staff are doing, it's not obvious. Still, for the cute dragons and unicorns, I'll give it a thumbs up... but absolutely wait for it to be on sale. Adorable as it is, there's not a lot of game play here for $30... or even $15. Tip: The stock of creatures and staff you can adopt/hire resets every Monday, so you don't need to spend 500 on refreshing the list. Also, there's a cap on the buildings. You can only build a total of 4 dorms, 4 tack rooms, and 4 staff centers. You can, however, upgrade each twice as you make your way through the game, giving you a total capacity of 24 each of creatures, staff, and students.

Pretty cute and fun game. I enjoyed it! Buy this on a sale as there isn't enough content to warrant a $30 price tag IMO.

It's a nice idea and all but the execution is just... meh. If you've done the first tier of everything (stable + house + arena), you've really done them all - it's just different textures at that point. That, in and of itself, would be forgiveable for what the game is - but combine it with quite tedious and janky controls and you got yourself underwhelmed carpal tunnel by the end I don't expect much from games like these - I play them to turn my head off and just chill out for a bit. Because of that, I've played many games like this and this is one you can skip without missing out.

Overall I did enjoy My Fantastic Ranch as the art style is very cute and I love dragons and unicorns! The management mechanics are simple and not overwhelming. But I would recommend purchasing the game when it goes on sale. For those that are interested, here are some of my further opinions/thoughts about the game: I do feel the game is expensive. At time of this review the game is not completed. If you follow the objectives you will eventually get told this, and I was unable to access some of the higher tier contests (unless I am missing something but it is not obvious? Since there are steam trophies available). Yet the game is not stated as Early Access, and people on console are expected to pay over £30 for this game. The graphics are bright and appealing. The dragons and unicorns are very cute and there is a lot of skin varieties. I was disappointed there is a creature cap because I would of liked to collect every skin type for my ranch. Your ranch is incredibly huge that currently the amount of space is unnecessary for the content that is available. It would be nice to have filter options to easily find creatures/riders with specific traits. Your progression is soft locked behind completing objectives which I found a bit frustrating. I did encounter a few bugs - paths not showing, creatures stuck in training rings when the lesson finished, creatures/riders/staff saying path is blocked, silly behaviour is occurring but the culprit cannot be found! But saving and reloading did resolve my issues. I really hope they will add more content to this game in the future.